Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 86

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony Kinda of a recommendation. It's more about the rage and frustration day-to-day life can be through the lense of exaggerated Japanese (work) culture. Give it a shot. Each episode is about 12 minutes long.

adiwan Gherkin ☑️

@thelastgherkin They are adapting. They become sentient. Skynet is coming.

adiwan Scribus

@scribus At least it was worth it!

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony Yeah. The solder pads are a bit small such that placing a cable might be cost some nerves. A little stress relief and hot glue might make it last. You can also short the reset pin directly on the ESP32 module but its pins are tinier. You can also use any other GPIO pin to trigger a software reset if you don't need all of them and a software reset works just as well as a hardware reset.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony At least I try some other types breads that the baker offers.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony It's certainly capable of streaming pictures. It can be clocked to 240MHz with no problem.

adiwan Scribus

@scribus Use one of these https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2019/06/02

adiwan Scribus

@scribus Use Alan Rickman from Galaxy Quest, by Grabthar Hammer's sake!

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony I had something low-key in mind. I received recently a EPS-32 micro controller with a camera attached. I was just thinking of using this to send a very low FPS video stream to a second micro controller with a screen attached whenever the PIR sensor is triggered. I'm sitting in a corner in the office that is pretty much out of sight of the door and I'm sitting with my back to the door. I could use a mirror but that'd be boring.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony 3.15€ to be exact! I have already ordered a replacement. It just takes some time from China. I also ordered a few other parts like a PIR motion detector. I plan to do something when someone enters my office. Like warn me or greet the entering person. I don't know yet.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony Thi is Not salvageable with my skills. The pads go straight into vias to the other side and there it is all covered with WS2812 LEDs. 3€ down the drain. Not worth my time to repair that. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874616

adiwan Anna Wright

@oracle The main problem is that I'm not responsible for the storyboard of the training. I'm the one who has to convert the gibberish into code. What I get is a very linear script that tells the user what to do and when the action has been done the next instruction appears. I use a giant state machine (in my current one there are about 80 states) for that purpose. Every time an action or an instruction has ended the state machine advances. The storyboard has 3 "difficulty levels" in mind in which the first level the user get all the instructions and the interaction items are highlighted. The second difficulty level is the same but without the instructions, and the 3rd is with no highlighting. In every state only the currently needed items are interactable and nothing more. My current training has also a little quiz in the second level and a thing where the user has to order the steps on a whiteboard. It's on the level of a kindergartener.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony My cheapo soldering station has a "temperature" dial but that's more a suggestion. It works so far and I'm too lazy to get a better one. I haven't had a cold joint so far and for my imprecise hands it's good enough.

adiwan Anna Wright

@oracle I programmed several trainings in the past. One was about changing a pH probe of a waste water system, then one about assembling a car's front to the chassis, then one about assembling car cockpit elements, and now it's about servicing the welding gun on a robot arm. In general the clients want to train their people to do a series of task by the book, with no deviation, and they are done in VR because
1) the machine/process doesn't exist yet and it's quicker to train it beforehand such that the time to applying the real process is as small as possible,
2) training in the real environment costs too much because it halts/disturbs assembly line and such,
3) train the process everywhere such that there is no need to go to the real location, which saves on traveling costs,
4) It's flashy and good for marketing
5) Can be repeated anytime
6) A very critical error in real life occurs very rarely and it cannot be replicated in real life but can be in VR

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony My tip is already crusty. It's a very old soldering iron (about 12 years?). It's already very abused. Last time I scraped off all the gunk and applied a layer of solder before turning it off. Whenever I buy a better soldering iron station then I'll take better care of the tip and buy some replacements.
I still have a few Deutsche Mark coins somewhere floating in my closet.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony My father gave me some hard flux but I cannot deal with it. it is very inconvenient to use such that I never touched it again. The flux does nothing except stink and fume on the tip. I solely rely on the flux in the solder whenever I solder. I think about buying a bit of liquid flux.

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony Can be fun for sure. If I'd build a clock I'd make something like https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3346801 or https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3201077 using an ESP8266 or ESP-32 and make it Internet connected such that it updates its time over NTP and add the ability to set the alarms by weekday and other superfluous features like a web interface for setting all of that and display temperature and humidity or a countdown to a specific date (Christmas)...

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony You mean a clock such like that https://www.adafruit.com/product/1530 ???

adiwan Alcoholic Beast

@drinkingpony Ok... Inhaling was a bit of a strong word.